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The impact of channel bonding on 802.11n network management (2011)
| Venue: | In CoNEXT |
| Citations: | 9 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Deek11theimpact,
author = {Lara Deek and Eduard Garcia-villegas and Elizabeth Belding and Sung-ju Lee and Kevin Almeroth},
title = {The impact of channel bonding on 802.11n network management},
booktitle = {In CoNEXT},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
The IEEE 802.11n standard allows wireless devices to operate on 40MHz-width channels by doubling their channel widthfromstandard20MHzchannels,aconceptcalledchannelbonding. Increasingchannelwidthshouldincreasebandwidth, but it comes at the cost of decreased transmission range and greater susceptibility to interference. However, with the incorporation of MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) technologyin 802.11n,devicescan now exploitthe increased transmission rates from wider channels at a reduced sacrifice to signal quality and range. The goal of our workistounderstandthecharacteristicsofchannelbonding in 802.11n networks and the factors that influence that behavior to ultimately be able to predict behavior so that network performance is maximized. We discuss the impact of channel bonding choices as well as the effects of both cochannel and adjacent channel interference on network performance. We discover that intelligent channel bonding decisions rely not only on a link’s signal quality, but also on the strengthofneighboringlinksandtheirphysicalrates. 1.
Keyphrases
channel bonding network management network performance reduced sacrifice signal quality 40mhz-width channel adjacent channel interference channel widthfromstandard20mhzchannels channel bonding choice link signal quality intelligent channel bonding decision multiple-input multiple-output standard allows wireless device wider channel decreased transmission range increased transmission rate
